The textile industry, for example, employed in 2008 an estimated 34 million people in the country.
Bradford's Pakistanis began to arrive in the late 1950s to work in the textile industry.
In China, the largest clothing manufacturer in the world, the textile industry is also a major polluter.
The province of Prato has 10, 900 resident Chinese nationals, many of them working in the textile industry.
Later, it secured a near-monopoly in the still more profitable trade in alum, vital to the textile industry.
Mr Crowley told a news conference in Dhaka that he understands how important the textile industry is to Bangladesh.
Rising costs and the end of quotas have greatly changed business in the textile industry in the past decade.
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There's a historical basis of this in what happened in the textile industry in the early part of the 20th century.
Both the textile industry and the agriculture sector have felt the hit.
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The textile industry, a tried-and-tested path to development, is also trammelled by restrictive quotas, which rich countries are phasing out rather slowly.
But a bunch of them mentioned, well, I was laid off because the textile industry has moved away here in North Carolina.
The former jute mill in the Blackness area of the city opened as a museum in 1996 and is dedicated to the textile industry that once dominated the city's economy.
"In reality, we have issues within the supply chain because there are several systems out there, and we have breaks within the data process, " said Reinhold Wawrzynek, chief executive of Mobiwork AG, a Munich-based system-software provider in the textile industry.
The textile industry, which has been suffering for many months, undone at first by the strong pound and since by thin demand in the shops, had more bad news this week when Courtaulds Textiles, a large manufacturer, said that it would probably cut 1, 200 jobs at Claremont Group, a clothing supplier to (currently troubled) Marks and Spencer which it bought a few weeks ago.
For many textile companies, turning to the military is a way to survive in the beleaguered textile industry, which has been hammered by cheaper Asian exports.
It shows that America is willing to shield its textile workers from foreign competition even after the mesh of quotas that currently trammel the global textile industry is undone next year.
In 1983, low-wage competition in China, Vietnam and India brought the Indonesian textile industry to a crisis point.
Sourcing Journal, a trade magazine for the textile manufacturing industry, points out that being cheap is the country's main way of remaining competitive against countries like China and Vietnam.
The two Congressmen, Joseph Crowley and James McDermott, did not announce any concrete measures to help the ailing Bangladeshi textile industry.
That might be true to some extent, but the textile and apparel industry in Brazil and throughout Latin America has lost market share abroad and domestically to China competitors.
They brought their wives in the 1970s, just as the city's textile industry collapsed.
Once upon a time the answer might have come from the state's textile industry, which is currently in high dudgeon about Mr Bush's willingness to let textile imports take local jobs away.
Once, U.S. cotton growers' biggest customer was the U.S. textile industry.
He said there might be a "glimmer of hope" for the industry as other textile businesses in the region had seen a recent upturn in business.
And in the days following September 11 below the public's radar screen T-shirt sales and military support were bundled up in a bizarre negotiation between the Bush administration and Pakistan, a negotiation that revealed the surprising power still held by the U.S. textile industry.
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Back then, Ford had to go outside the auto industry to find a textile manufacturer capable of producing recycled fabric.
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Those who view the global garment and textile industries through the prism of labour costs see it as an industry dominated by commodities.
Those few miners that were lucky to find other jobs were joining temporary employment agencies with no guarantee of regular income or the local textile factories where wages were far lower than they had earned in the mining industry.
"Trade with India is likely to open up if he wins and in that case Lahore will be the place to make investments, " said Anis ul-Haq, Punjab secretary of the All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association, which represents the province's multibillion-dollar garments industry.
The November fire at the Tazreen garment factory drew international attention to the conditions workers toil under in Bangladesh's textile industry.
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